Fail. Free speech and the rights of an individual are the foundation of a prosperous society.
The foundation of a prosperous society are enough basics like food, water, and enough land for everyone to survive without having to rob or kill each other.
Personal freedoms and the rights of individuals are noble concepts but how much freedom does a starving and unemployable man have?
India has bigger problems it's working hard on ignoring. The lack of clean food and water. The epidemic homeless situation. The missing education system for most of the population. The degraded farmland and the rubbish mountains.
All of the above are more important than the right to abuse people in blogs.
Or just keep using Windows or Mac OS, which don't hide important functions in obscure programs with nondescriptive names.
Or use windows and regedit and reboot to perform anything but the most trivial tasks. And reboot again for regular patches. And reboot again when random bits of software just stop working. And still have to run virus scanning software to check every IO operation against a database of known exploits.
Windows has never been ready for desktop or server use.
Yes, it's BS but so are EULAs. It's bull crap that anyone can write pages of unreadable legal jargon in a tiny font and expect you to be bound by it without even the option of printing it out and showing it to a lawyer. The same with putting up unreadable signs and claiming they have legal meaning, it's bull crap.
Cats agreeing to EULA's is treating these 'legal professional' jokers with the insanity they try to force on the world at large.
You have a bunch of servers doing nothing but losing value at a rate of 20 to 30% a year and inviting theft. These things are going to be obsolete by the time you need them.
Ebay them as fast as possible. When you need servers buy servers with the cash.
I use are my electric shaver (stays in the bathroom
Actually my electric razor does charge over USB. I use USB chargeable AA batteries in it. I got some as a promotional item but usbcell.com sell them online. I have to admit I was skeptical but these things really are brilliant.
Now if only they would start selling the AAA ones I would not need to buy replacement batteries for my headphones once a month.
we heard the same bull from them over Vista, XP and Windows 2000?
And before that Windows 95 was 'the OS you never need to turn off'. They called NT 'New Technology' when it was really just a GUI on top of a shaky VMS re-implementation.
MS has always been a marketing not a technology company. Sadly most of their customers care so little about IT they fall for the marketing time after time.
I predict OSX and/or Linux will replace MS on the desktop as soon as the first big multinational failure can be blamed on the insecurity of MS products. I'm guessing at within 5 years.
So naturally, the only sane and rational thing to do (in M$ world) is cut the testing, drop a beta from the schedule, only have one release candidate and hit the markets.
...Then repeat in 3 years.
It's the same old business plan. MS are trying to make money, not operating systems and they have the good fortune of selling to people that understand nothing about what they are buying.
Nobody hates you for your freedom. They hate you for your excesses, your manipulation of free trade, your quickness to depend on military solutions and your inability to see any war anywhere without getting involved.
But they love you for your innovation, your technology, your TV shows and the fact you buy so many imported things and love to borrow money.
By your reasoning Iran, even with nuclear power, is carrying out the will of it's people during it's genocidal cleansings of various minorities inside it's borders. But they chose once to start this. Now they'd chose, in a heartbeat, to end it, but they can't.
You do know that Iran and Iraq are different countries don't you? Or have you been watching American news?
I use mc because I can't be root on the servers at work
You mean they don't trust you?
I don't have the space to create large tarballs
Your company is too tight to buy disks which cost almost nothing.
things like nfs mounts are simply not permitted here between servers.
Your company want to be obstructive.
Your solutions are very good for the most part, just not for me.:-)
Netcat would work with the limits you have stated. You can bind ports over 1024. But if you are going to put netcat on the destination machine you might as well use sshd on a high port.
If you really work for the kind of company that don't trust you with root access on the machine you use, won't give you decent sized disks to do your job, and ban NFS you might want to spend some time checking jobserve in the 12 hours it will take mc to ftp 20Gig of files one file at a time.
Okay, now transfer this six-level-deep application directory tree to the new server using only the command-line ftp client found on a vanilla Solaris 8 server.
There are many ways to do that.
Easy: tar, ftp, tar No disk space: NFS mount, find source | cpio -pmudv/dest Crazy: dd over netcat Encrypted for the internet: ( cd/source ; tar -cf - * ) | ssh dest 'cd dir ; tar -xf -'
MC isn't the only way to copy files, it isn't even a good way to copy files.
Midnight commander is a classic example of making things too easy. Anyone that can't or doesn't want to use command line tools has no business moving files around on any unix machine.
It's windows mentality to patronize users, it's not unix mentality.
We had interactive teaching tools when I was in school. They were called teachers. We also had these things called books, too, which didn't react to anything, and the pictures didn't animate, but they revealed whole new worlds to me nonetheless.
I'm old.:-(
You're right. Teaching isn't about playing with pretty toys, it's about passing on knowledge. Computers could only be a distraction from that.
Computers have their place but if you are not teaching computing you don't need computers. Even if you are teaching computing theory you don't need computers.
What you need are good teachers, pens, pencils, paper and a whiteboard.
(I know, for Linux, "thrown together mess" is a *feature*, not a bug. It's only a bug when we're talking about Windows.)
I totally agree with your statement.
Linux is built to be modular, it consists of many things doing one well formed task with clear lines of communication between each task.
Windows is a monolithic mess with no clear lines of communication between different tasks. Any kernel or userland change can affect anything else in unexpected ways. The parts are forced together without any clear design. This makes testing any part of the system nearly impossible and causes countless security holes.
If you want users to be able to login any windows machine with the same username and password you don't want AD, you want samba serving as a domain controller. Try not to use LDAP as a backend, it does work but in small environments its unneeded hassle.
If you have applications that require AD it's going to be a lot more work than it's worth faking it. It takes a lot of 30 minute reboots to add up to a solid month or two of getting some other solution to behave right.
If you have to use AD make sure you have firewalls, virus scanners, and physical security in place for the controller. Absolutely do not let some joker use it as their personal web browsing station.
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No, it's pretty much true. Most women do not use logic or reasoning. They can't even manage money properly.
Absolutely true yet still misleading. Most people do not use logic or reasoning. Most people can't manage money properly.
The lack of women in IT seems to be due to a lack of interest, not a lack of ability.
Fail. Free speech and the rights of an individual are the foundation of a prosperous society.
The foundation of a prosperous society are enough basics like food, water, and enough land for everyone to survive without having to rob or kill each other.
Personal freedoms and the rights of individuals are noble concepts but how much freedom does a starving and unemployable man have?
India has bigger problems it's working hard on ignoring. The lack of clean food and water. The epidemic homeless situation. The missing education system for most of the population. The degraded farmland and the rubbish mountains.
All of the above are more important than the right to abuse people in blogs.
Use windows and get shafted.
It's business as usual.
Or just keep using Windows or Mac OS, which don't hide important functions in obscure programs with nondescriptive names.
Or use windows and regedit and reboot to perform anything but the most trivial tasks. And reboot again for regular patches. And reboot again when random bits of software just stop working. And still have to run virus scanning software to check every IO operation against a database of known exploits.
Windows has never been ready for desktop or server use.
I want to see movies and pictures of servers blowing up. That site it just two pages of text squeezed between adverts.
Are server internals flying all over the place and a little fire too much to ask for?
What the fuck is this shit? Seriously.
Yes, it's BS but so are EULAs. It's bull crap that anyone can write pages of unreadable legal jargon in a tiny font and expect you to be bound by it without even the option of printing it out and showing it to a lawyer. The same with putting up unreadable signs and claiming they have legal meaning, it's bull crap.
Cats agreeing to EULA's is treating these 'legal professional' jokers with the insanity they try to force on the world at large.
You have a bunch of servers doing nothing but losing value at a rate of 20 to 30% a year and inviting theft. These things are going to be obsolete by the time you need them.
Ebay them as fast as possible. When you need servers buy servers with the cash.
I use are my electric shaver (stays in the bathroom
Actually my electric razor does charge over USB. I use USB chargeable AA batteries in it. I got some as a promotional item but usbcell.com sell them online. I have to admit I was skeptical but these things really are brilliant.
Now if only they would start selling the AAA ones I would not need to buy replacement batteries for my headphones once a month.
we heard the same bull from them over Vista, XP and Windows 2000?
And before that Windows 95 was 'the OS you never need to turn off'. They called NT 'New Technology' when it was really just a GUI on top of a shaky VMS re-implementation.
MS has always been a marketing not a technology company. Sadly most of their customers care so little about IT they fall for the marketing time after time.
I predict OSX and/or Linux will replace MS on the desktop as soon as the first big multinational failure can be blamed on the insecurity of MS products. I'm guessing at within 5 years.
So naturally, the only sane and rational thing to do (in M$ world) is cut the testing, drop a beta from the schedule, only have one release candidate and hit the markets.
...Then repeat in 3 years.
It's the same old business plan. MS are trying to make money, not operating systems and they have the good fortune of selling to people that understand nothing about what they are buying.
I just don't see how they can pull all that off for $10.
Thats because they can't. It's the nature of dishonest people to promise more than they can deliver.
You think India is "third world"?
Let me guess, you're an American, right?
I am not American, and I have been to many places within India. I have seen many other countries too.
India is a third world country. It's not a matter of debate, it's a matter of fact.
plus they hate us for our freedom!!!
Americans keep saying that, it makes no sense.
Nobody hates you for your freedom. They hate you for your excesses, your manipulation of free trade, your quickness to depend on military solutions and your inability to see any war anywhere without getting involved.
But they love you for your innovation, your technology, your TV shows and the fact you buy so many imported things and love to borrow money.
By your reasoning Iran, even with nuclear power, is carrying out the will of it's people during it's genocidal cleansings of various minorities inside it's borders. But they chose once to start this. Now they'd chose, in a heartbeat, to end it, but they can't.
You do know that Iran and Iraq are different countries don't you? Or have you been watching American news?
Hey! Stop trying to make viable recommendations for my artificially contrived hypothetical situation here... :-)
So.. What you are saying is that MC only has value in artificially contrived hypothetical situations?
Useful.
I use mc because I can't be root on the servers at work
You mean they don't trust you?
I don't have the space to create large tarballs
Your company is too tight to buy disks which cost almost nothing.
things like nfs mounts are simply not permitted here between servers.
Your company want to be obstructive.
Your solutions are very good for the most part, just not for me. :-)
Netcat would work with the limits you have stated. You can bind ports over 1024. But if you are going to put netcat on the destination machine you might as well use sshd on a high port.
If you really work for the kind of company that don't trust you with root access on the machine you use, won't give you decent sized disks to do your job, and ban NFS you might want to spend some time checking jobserve in the 12 hours it will take mc to ftp 20Gig of files one file at a time.
Okay, now transfer this six-level-deep application directory tree to the new server using only the command-line ftp client found on a vanilla Solaris 8 server.
There are many ways to do that.
Easy: tar, ftp, tar /dest /source ; tar -cf - * ) | ssh dest 'cd dir ; tar -xf -'
No disk space: NFS mount, find source | cpio -pmudv
Crazy: dd over netcat
Encrypted for the internet: ( cd
MC isn't the only way to copy files, it isn't even a good way to copy files.
I am not a command line hacker - mc has always been a VERY important tool I install in just about every box I've ever set up.
ls directory
mv source dest
cp source dest
rm file
rmdir dir
If you can't master that then how on earth do you have the knowledge to set up any kind of box?
Midnight commander is a classic example of making things too easy. Anyone that can't or doesn't want to use command line tools has no business moving files around on any unix machine.
It's windows mentality to patronize users, it's not unix mentality.
We had interactive teaching tools when I was in school. They were called teachers. We also had these things called books, too, which didn't react to anything, and the pictures didn't animate, but they revealed whole new worlds to me nonetheless.
I'm old. :-(
You're right. Teaching isn't about playing with pretty toys, it's about passing on knowledge. Computers could only be a distraction from that.
One laptop per student is the single best approach.
And you will average out to one laptop per child six months later. Sadly 1/3 of children will have no laptop, and 2/3 of laptops will be broken.
Computers have their place but if you are not teaching computing you don't need computers. Even if you are teaching computing theory you don't need computers.
What you need are good teachers, pens, pencils, paper and a whiteboard.
(I know, for Linux, "thrown together mess" is a *feature*, not a bug. It's only a bug when we're talking about Windows.)
I totally agree with your statement.
Linux is built to be modular, it consists of many things doing one well formed task with clear lines of communication between each task.
Windows is a monolithic mess with no clear lines of communication between different tasks. Any kernel or userland change can affect anything else in unexpected ways. The parts are forced together without any clear design. This makes testing any part of the system nearly impossible and causes countless security holes.
Do you really need AD?
If you want users to be able to login any windows machine with the same username and password you don't want AD, you want samba serving as a domain controller. Try not to use LDAP as a backend, it does work but in small environments its unneeded hassle.
If you have applications that require AD it's going to be a lot more work than it's worth faking it. It takes a lot of 30 minute reboots to add up to a solid month or two of getting some other solution to behave right.
If you have to use AD make sure you have firewalls, virus scanners, and physical security in place for the controller. Absolutely do not let some joker use it as their personal web browsing station.